A QUESTION OF MADNESS

Janus-Faced Madness in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power

This paper is an attempt to discuss the concept of madness and its differentcauses and functions in Bessie Head’s semiautobiographical novel A Question ofPower. It aims to explore the multifaceted insanity of Elizabeth the exiled coloredprotagonist in terms of different theories. We will see how once a devastatingtrauma turns out to be a habilitating schizophrenia. Head challenges the readers’n...

A Question of Madness

janus-faced madness in bessie head’s a question of power

this paper is an attempt to discuss the concept of madness and its differentcauses and functions in bessie head’s semiautobiographical novel a question ofpower. it aims to explore the multifaceted insanity of elizabeth the exiled coloredprotagonist in terms of different theories. we will see how once a devastatingtrauma turns out to be a habilitating schizophrenia. head challenges the readers’n...

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Expanding Examples of Madness According to the Concept and Criterion of Madness Perspective of Jurisprudence, Law and Psychology

Background and aim: Madness is a subject that has long been the subject of legal attention. Today, Industrial societies are confronted with a phenomenon called mental disorders and those with such disease which unfortunately is increasing day by day. Obviously, laws over time for scientific advances need to be reformed. This article explores the legal status and the way in which mental patients...